“She! Isn’t she the woman in the magazine who seduced Darren”
“I heard that she is Darren’s nephew’s fiancée. How could she shamelessly seduce her fiancé’s uncle!”
A few people talked quietly behind her back.
Selina heard their voices and felt her cheeks get hot. Their gaze was too intent with a hint of sarcasm as they waited for her to make a fool of herself.
“What happened”
Karl and Darren asked in a puzzled manner as they walked out of the villa and saw everyone crowded in the garden.
Darren saw Selina outside the garden, standing on the other side of the fence.
“Darren.”
She whispered to him. At this moment, she just wanted to see him. Those memories from her childhood were too frightening. She didn’t know how to deal with them, and her only thought was to find him.
Darren looked at her from head to toe.
When his gaze landed on her bare feet and the blood oozing from her toes, he instantly became intense.
He quickly rushed out of the villa and carried the hateful woman in front of him by her waist. “Call the doctor over.”
After giving the order, he carried her and walked into the villa, leaving everyone behind.
Darren brought her into the living room and put her on the sofa. He frowned as he stared at the scars on the soles of her feet.
“Darren… woo…” She leaned forward and hugged his waist, and finally couldn’t help but cry loudly.
As he looked down at her crying like a child, Darren stretched out to comfort her. Just as he touched her hair, his hand stopped suddenly.
His fingers curled up in the air before clenching into a fist by his side.
After a while, Stella and Karl walked in with a doctor and a nurse.
In the bright living room, Karl saw her bloody soles at a glance. “Hurry up and treat Miss Reed’s wound!”
Darren took a couple of steps back to make way.
The doctor and the nurse came over and opened the first-aid kit. The smell of the disinfectant gave her goose bumps all over.
“Miss Reed, what was this for”
Karl shook his head repeatedly, showing compassion and care for her.
No man could stand this kind of injury!
When Darren was about to leave, Selina reached out and grabbed his hand. Just in time, the nurse washed the wounds on her feet with pure water. When the water touched the wound, it sent waves of prickling sensation.
Darren tightened his grasp of her hand subconsciously to give her strength. “Bear with it for a bit.”
After treating the wound, Selina realized she was lying in Darren’s arms in a daze, and her feet were wrapped in gauze.
For a while, she forgot that she was injured and was immersed in his warm embrace.
“Don’t touch water or walk these days.”
After the doctor left, Darren got up from the sofa and was about to follow.
“Darren”
Selina hurriedly called out to him.
She was in this state, yet he still wanted to avoid her
As she thought about it, she was about to get up.
“Don’t move!” Darren snapped.
She stopped immediately, motionless.
Only then did he realize that his tone was too harsh and wanted to explain. He opened his mouth and turned angrily and followed the doctor to leave, as if he just thought of something.
Only Karl and Stella were left in the living room. The two stared at Selina and observed her.
Selina felt uncomfortably from being stared at. She rubbed her fingers and looked at the two in doubt. “Why are you staring at me”
Karl touched his chin. “I’ve finally seen you in person. Please forgive me for being unable to suppress my curiosity.”
She looked at the man in front of her, who was obviously of mixed-race. “In person Have you seen me before”
“Um, I—”
“You should go now.” Darren walked in with a wheelchair and coldly kicked out the guests.
Karl sneered at his friend. “Based on how you are, I’ll be going by myself tomorrow. This way I won’t disturb you as you improve your relationship with this beauty.”
As he turned around and walked out, he put his arms around Stella’s neck. “Beauty, I have to compromise and have you keep me company tonight.”
“Mr. Newton, please let go!”
Karl quarreled with Stella and left the villa.
When there were only two people left in the villa, Selina’s heart raced. She knew that Darren had mysophobia and did not like having strangers in the house. So except for those who came to clean and cook regularly, there were no outsiders in this villa.
At the moment, they were the only two in the huge villa…
“Darren.”
“What happened”
Since she saw the person she wanted to see, she calmed down. She didn’t want him to get disturbed by those unbearable things that happened in the past.
With a slight smile, she quickly put her hands on her knees and tilted her head. “I just missed you all of a sudden and wanted to see you.”
Darren stared at her and suddenly replied indifferently. “If you don’t tell me, you can go back right now.”
“Uh…”
Rolling her hands, she bit her lip and looked at him nervously.
When Darren turned around and was about to leave, Selina hurriedly called out to him. “I just… suddenly remembered something from my childhood. Something very bad. Perhaps it was because I was too young at that time, so I eventually forgot.”
“Really Shouldn’t you go find your fiancé”
Speaking of Eric, Selina forgot the injury on her feet and stood up suddenly. “Listen to my explanation, I—”
“Sit down!” Darren snapped.
She hurriedly sat down and put her hands on her lap. She didn’t even dare to breathe and was obedient like a child.
As he stared at her, Darren’s gaze was complicated and deep.
“What did you remember”
“I remember—” Just as she was about to speak, she found that she couldn’t say it no at any rate.
Father quarrelled with her mother and pushed mother down the stairs.
Suddenly she didn’t dare say it. How could she say something like this!
She had a skeleton in her closet. She personally poured poison into his mouth. She dare not say anything.
“I remembered that I was kidnapped as a kid.”
Darren was taken aback for a while then glanced at her. He walked over to pick her up and put her on the wheelchair before speaking calmly. “You will stay here for now.”
“Okay! She looked surprised.
As she slept in the Autons’ guest room at night, Selina lay on the bed with her hands on the clean bed quilt, as if doing so could get her closer to Darren.
“Darren, sooner or later, I will return to our new house…”
A tear slipped from the corner of her eye down her nose finally on the bed.
In the past, she felt that it was the dirtiest place and didn’t want to live there at all. On the night of her wedding, she used a knife to force Darren to let her leave. The way he backed off and the hurtful look in his eyes resurfaced very clearly at this moment.
“Selina, from the moment I married you, you are the only important woman in my life. I will do what I can about the grievances you have suffered and the things you wanted.”
At the wedding, how did he feel as he made those promises Yet how did she respond to him
She drugged him and relentlessly broke his heart with hurtful words. She even colluded with others to take away what he had worked so hard for!
Selina curled up tightly and bit her lip. She was no different from her father with the way she did!
As she cried, she drifted into sleep.
In her dream, she seemed to have returned to the years when she was married to Darren.